CVE-2015-6938

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the file browser in notebook/notebookapp.py in IPython Notebook before 3.2.2 and Jupyter Notebook 4.0.x before 4.0.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a folder name. NOTE: this was originally reported as a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, but this may be inaccurate.

• CWE-79

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166460.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166471.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167670.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00016.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/474
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/544Mailing List, Patch
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259405Issue Tracking
• https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/3ab41641cf6fce3860c73d5cf4645aa12e1e5892Exploit
• https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/35f32dd2da804d108a3a3585b69ec3295b2677edExploit
• https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/dd9876381f0ef09873d8c5f6f2063269172331e3Issue Tracking, Patch
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166460.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166471.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167670.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00016.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/474
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/544Mailing List, Patch
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259405Issue Tracking
• https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/3ab41641cf6fce3860c73d5cf4645aa12e1e5892Exploit
• https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/35f32dd2da804d108a3a3585b69ec3295b2677edExploit
• https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/dd9876381f0ef09873d8c5f6f2063269172331e3Issue Tracking, Patch

Published

Sep 21, 2015

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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